To the Right Honourable Thomas Adams Lord Major of the famous citie London, and the VVorshipfull the sheriffs, Master Thomas Foote, and Master John Kendrick, with the rest of the aldermen and their brethren This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94681 of text R210567 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.10[74]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A94681 Wing T1713 Thomason 669.f.10[74] ESTC R210567 99869351 99869351 162609 2240954235

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A94681) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162609) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f10[74]) To the Right Honourable Thomas Adams Lord Major of the famous citie London, and the VVorshipfull the sheriffs, Master Thomas Foote, and Master John Kendrick, with the rest of the aldermen and their brethren 1 sheet ([1] p.) for Benjamin Green, and are to be sold at his house in thee leg-Court in Fleetstreet, over against the VVhite-Friars, Printed at London : 1646. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aug: 11th". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Sunday -- Early works to 1800. London (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Religious aspects -- Early works to 1800. A94681 R210567 (Thomason 669.f.10[74]). civilwar no To the Right Honourable Thomas Adams, Lord Major of the famous citie London, and the VVorshipfull the sheriffs, Master Thomas Foote, and Mas anon. 1646 1 591 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-07 Sampled and proofread 2007-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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To the Right Honourable Thomas Adams , Lord Major of the famous Citie London , the Worshipfull the Sheriffs , Master Thomas Foote , and Master John Kendrick , with the rest of the Aldermen their Brethren :

THese are to give your Honour and Worships to understand : That your Petitioners have taken notice , of many worthy actions done for the honour of God , the safety of the King and Kingdom , the preservation of the Gospel and true religion amongst us , and especially by the strict Keeping of the Lords-day : as in reforming the river of Thames , by Watermens not labouring on the Sabbath-day : and it is an honourable act of them that have done it , which we ascribe to no other but the Parliament : and some of your petitioners have been troubled for Trifles , not worth the nominating : like those Pharisees in the Gospel , which rebuked our Saviour Christ Iesus his Disciples for pulling the ears of corne on the Sabbath-day ( yet they themselves ride on the Sabbath-day in Coaches ) as if God saw not that sinne , by setting Men and Horse at worke , as Hackney Coach-men ( which is their trade ) why not Water-men or any other Trades-men , if they be suffered ? But your Petitioners having experience of many worthy actions which you have already done , for King , Church , and State , your loyaltie to your King , your piety in desiring an established Church-Government , and for your fidelitie to the Parliament ( which they themselves cannot deny ) to the wonder of the world , and to the everlasting Fame of this Honourable Citie London , that so great a City , so populous , which may , and ( as we have read ) hath been compared to a petty world , for the statelines of its Governours , and Corporations therein .

Wherefore , that to everlasting Fame you may be Eternized , that you all ( as one man ) will be pleased to move the Honourable Houses of Parliament , that as they have reformed the ancient river Thames , That they would be pleased to reform , the almost as ancient renowned City London , of Coaches travelling about the City on the Lords-day , which is a higher breach of the fourth Commandment then that which the Parliament have reformed ; by setting the Beasts to work on that day , which ought ( by the law of God ) to rest as well as man , and he that doth but rest , little differeth from a Beast .

And to take notice how many Churches in London are annoyed by their passing by in Sermon time , to the great dishonour of God , and to the hindrance of the hearers of the Word , which is the onely means under God of our salvation ; And if not speedily Reformed , it will breed a great scandall on the Parliaments Reformation , which may be such like words as these , That they could see to reform Boats ; but they cannot , or will not reform Coaches .

This petition hath been read in the Ears of a Thousand Citizens of good rank and qualitie .

Printed at London for Benjamin Green , and are to be sold at his house in three leg-Court in Fleetstreet , over against the White-Friars . 1646.